Alternate Designations: 43rd Pennsylvania Volunteers
Commander: Capt. James H. Cooper (1840-1906).
Numbers: 4 Ordnance Rifles, 114 men; 3 killed, 9 wounded.
Raised: Lawrence County
Dedicated: Sept. 11, 1889.
Location: East Cemetery Hill. It marks the position held by Cooper’s Battery from the evening of July 1, 1863, until relieved by Ricketts on the evening of July 2, after a duel with Nelson and Latimer on Benner’s Hill.
Description: Marker stands on a tiered, rough-hewn base. A polished rifle tube sits atop the marker on a rough-hewn plinth. A relief of the State Seal is affixed to the upper front face of the piece. Monument is a three-part stepped shaft with a tiered cap topped with a stone cannon tube and set on a 7.4×5.6 foot rough cut base. The middle part of the shaft is polished stone with incised inscriptions on four sides and the upper part is smooth cut pediment top. Overall height is 11.5 feet.
National Park Service List of Classified Monuments Number: MN307.
Sculptor: Sholl and Robinson, fabricator.
Other Monuments: First Day Monument | Cemetery Hill Monument | Cemetery Hill Marker | Tablet (Plum Run Line)